Star Forge Titan

What kind of meditation is that? I've never heard of it!

Ka Yang wanted to continue asking questions, but a sudden wave of magical power made both of them look towards the entrance of the courtyard at the same time.

Although the magical fluctuations were somewhat unstable, their intensity was unusually high. As if sensing some familiar characteristics from them, Ivan raised his eyebrows and said with some surprise:

"Our driver is here."

These words made Ka Yang immediately understand who the visitor was, and almost made him spit out all the juice he had just drunk.

"Pfft, cough, cough, damn it, he's already been promoted in just a few days? And this kind of strength... Tsk, another monster-level guy."

The necromancer cursed, took out his wand and opened the courtyard gate from a distance. The person who came in was indeed Diana.

After training her several more times during this period, old Patton needed to take a break temporarily because he was doubting his life. Although he knew that the successor he chose was good enough, to that extent was too stimulating for an old man.

When they were promoted, if the two had not left quickly, the departments and institutions that came to invite Diana to join would probably have blocked the door of the Magic Research Institute.

Just kidding, this is the golden age of the development of magical engineering. Every outstanding new-class extraordinary person may mean the future success of this path.

The short-haired girl waved to the two guys who were taking a break from their busy schedule on the roof. Although her expression remained calm, it was not difficult to tell from her slightly excited movements that the girl was in a very good mood at the moment.

Without the help of any auxiliary equipment, Diana trotted two steps, lightly used the wall for leverage, then raised her hand without even looking, accurately grasped Ivan's outstretched arm, and jumped onto the roof.

"You've gained enhanced agility and physical strength, and it seems you've also gained an additional boost in perception. In short, you've become a qualified Transcendent." Ivan said familiarly.

"Yeah." Diana nodded and admitted it directly.

But she was also a little curious about how the other party found out.

"Unstable magical fluctuations, similar to magical pressure, but not to that extent. Obviously, only newcomers who have just completed their promotion a few days ago will experience this kind of uncontrollable phenomenon." The black-haired boy took the initiative to explain.

"Anyway, getting promoted is a good thing."

"Can I ask what class it is? It doesn't look like a common [Warrior] or anything like that." Khayon asked curiously:

"..." Diana was stunned for a moment and although she was a little hesitant, her expression did not change much.

"Steel Soldier." The girl uttered a simple word.

This is also in line with the naming style of most initial job descriptions, which simply describe the characteristics of the job.

"What is that?" Ka Yang was stunned for a moment and then realized that this should be the promotion sequence unique to the Linde Empire.

"Linde's characteristics." Ivan said half-jokingly:

"As for talent, perhaps we should bring out that 'little beast' we've prepared ahead of time and give it a try."

"We need a magical vehicle, which means a new job specifically designed to work with magical engineering products?" Khayang responded quickly.

"Yes. Besides the improvement in physical fitness, the main talent is called [Machine Soul Resonance]. It is used to resonate with the vehicle's internal magic engine, and can control the engine power at the speed of thought. The best among them can even perform some delicate operations that can only be achieved after being promoted at the same time."

Diana's eyes widened immediately after hearing what Ivan said. Why did she feel that the other party was more familiar with this job than she was?

"Okay, okay, let's test the car and let those guys who have been waiting outside for a long time open their eyes." Alvin glanced at the courtyard wall. He didn't need to use his sixth sense, because those spies could not escape his current perception.

"You don't mind exposing the information?" Ka Yang asked in a teasing tone:

"The competition is in three days, so there's no need to worry too much about this." Ivan shrugged and said meaningfully:

"Besides, if the car is going fast enough, they won't be able to see much."

"!" Diana didn't say anything when she heard his words, but her eyes immediately brightened up.

"It seems so." Khayon spread his hands and waved his wand.

As the spell command was issued, the temporary arched workshop in the courtyard automatically opened to the left and right under the control of the internal machinery, revealing a brand new racing car with a classic blue, white and red paint job underneath.

The smooth, streamlined body looks like a metal beast crawling on the ground, exuding a ferocious aura waiting for an opportunity to strike. A pair of olive-shaped thrusters at the rear form a V-shape on the left and right, like the powerful outstretched wings of a bird of prey. The air intake and the end of the nozzle are decorated with golden color, like a pair of sharp golden claws.

Through the rear hood that has not been closed yet, you can see the second-generation shockwave magic engine inside, which is full of mechanical industrial aesthetics and consists of a total of twelve sets of magic shockwave units in parallel in two rows on the left and right.

Even though it hasn't started yet and the paint job still emits a faint smell, the whole car still looks like the protagonist's machine in literary and artistic works.

The three of them held their breath at the same time, and then, Khayon suddenly revealed a subtle expression.

"Wait, did we forget to name the car?"

Ivan paused and gave an awkward, rather than polite, smile:

"I'm not good at this."

Khayon subconsciously glanced at the Annihilation Axe lying on the workbench next to him, pretending to be dead.

"I know."

Then, both of them looked at Diana at the same time.

The short-haired girl remained silent and didn't speak immediately.

Gradually, a rare bright smile full of sunshine appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"Hope, the new Hope." The memories of the past made her smile particularly beautiful.

"The name of this car is..."

"New Hope!"

Chapter 195: Dawn Opening (Part 1)

On the last day before the competition, a red light was faintly visible in the dim study.

It was the flickering flame of a lit cigar emitted by the holder's breath.

"In other words, you didn't find anything?" Nicholas Flamel, Executive Vice President of the Linde Alchemist Association, asked in a low voice:

In front of him, a man in black, his whole body covered by a cloak, was bowing in a humble manner, fully expressing his respect for the alchemist, or rather, his awe for the Linde Alchemist Association he represented.

"Unfortunately, my subordinates were unable to keep up with the magic car. It was simply too fast." The man in black replied helplessly.

"The car will eventually stop. Can't the senior wanderers of the Wanderer Guild get close to that workshop?" Flamel cast a dissatisfied look at the other party.

This question seemed to embarrass the other party, and the man in black couldn't help but bend even lower. People like them, who made a living in the gray and black realms, always had a greater respect for money than others. The Linde Alchemist Association currently represented one of the most powerful financial forces within the Perfect City, Lutetia.

"Sorry, that workshop is more troublesome than we imagined. We once sent out our guild's ace, a shadowy figure who had just been promoted to the third level. The next day, we found him hanging upside down from a tree in the suburbs, shouting something meaningless like 'Dogs, don't come here, sheep, don't come here,'" the man in black explained hesitantly.

"Hmph, forget it, let's leave it at that." Flamel waved his hand, signaling the other party to retreat.

The man in black left the study room on his own accord, and did not forget to close the door behind him.

He did not ask about the subsequent remuneration. In fact, the other party did not ask for the deposit back, which made this senior official of the Thieves Guild feel fortunate. He even sighed in his heart that as a rich man of the Linde Alchemist Association, he did not take money seriously.

"The prototype has only just been completed, so there's probably not enough time for thorough testing. Is its only characteristic the speed? It's just the shape..." Looking at a hastily drawn charcoal diagram brought by the man in black, alchemist Flamel slowly frowned.

"Damn it! Why do I feel like this car looks so similar to the association's 'Golden Thoughts'?"

Discussions about that car also took place among other participating teams.

"Speed? The Borgasos is the fastest racing car of this era." The engineer from the General Magic Factory said with great confidence:

"Yes, and we still have that deadly lance." Another engineer added with a smirk:

Aiming at a straight beam of red light, a sharp conical spike suddenly popped out from the front of the racing car parked in the factory hangar.

"Running fast is useless. The bronze chariot will crush all other chariots at the starting line!"

The owner of the Daimler workshop roared loudly while smoking a thick cigar. The deafening sound of the engine below seemed to echo his words, followed by the sound of walls being smashed and collapsed.

"The sky is the track for the fastest. I'm grateful for that young man's reminder last time, but the winner of this race will only be the Victory Cyclone of the Cloud Tower!" Inside a magical tower nestled in the clouds, Mage Victor murmured to himself as he gazed at the race car with its special cylindrical engine.

"In a race, no one can rival Lightning." Inside the Tesla Rotor Company's laboratory, illuminated by blue electric light, some people are also confident in their cars.

The side hall of the Cathedral of the Temple of Light was now completely dark. In the dim space without any lights, many young priests gathered here in the name of pre-race prayer. They all had strange and hard smiles on their faces as they prostrated themselves before a pure white racing car and kowtowed repeatedly.

Led by Pastor Eddie, a contestant, prayers from different voices eventually converged into the same words.

"Thank you, great and loving Holy Father, I will fulfill your will and bring bliss to the many lost lambs of Lutetia."

As if blocked by the high city walls, the invisible turmoil inside the perfect city - Lutetia has not yet spread to the outside of the city.

In the small alchemy workshop that still has no name, Alvin is meditating for the first time after being promoted to the second level.

There was no complicated ceremony, nor any expensive incense. He just sat casually on a chair with his chin in his hand.

The black-haired boy looked like he was asleep, but his eyelids trembled slightly, like a big cat dozing on the throne.

In Ivan's mind, the clanging sound of metal and iron intertwined was endless, and an originally illusory shadow gradually took shape like a steel machine being gradually manufactured.

The essence of meditation is to construct a detailed image of a certain object within the mind through willpower. This allows one to transform and refine one's own magic power, transforming the power that one's soul unintentionally releases into a fixed mark and integrating it into the magic power, achieving complete control and transformation of magic power, and ultimately using this as a medium to awaken the power of one's own soul.

Depending on the description of the image, the image of the super spirit doppelganger produced after the soul power awakens will also be different, and the power it possesses will also be affected by the magic characteristics and the power of the promotion class.

As for the specific meditation methods, each school has its own unique methods, and some special meditation methods can even bring users additional "gifts" of spell-like abilities.

But no matter what kind of meditation method is used, its fundamental purpose is to awaken the power of the soul. As for improving the precision of magic control and adding additional characteristics to one's own magic, they are just accessories in the process.

However, the power of meditation lies in the fact that even the difficult-to-control explosive flames can be given the opposite freezing properties by relying on the tenacious power of will.

This may sound like an act of making the impossible possible, but in fact it is the most fundamental goal since the birth of the extraordinary.

Let me ask you, if it were not for the pursuit of miraculous power, why would the creatures in this world try so hard to break free from worldly constraints and bravely move forward towards the path of transcendence, awakening and ultimate perfection?

Let's get back to the point. The meditation method called 'Steel God Forging' is a new type of meditation method developed by Lind of the Central Empire after the birth of magical engineering and its corresponding extraordinary job.

It abandons the traditional meditation method of constructing images with the help of and reference to the existence of myths and legends. Instead, it uses the actual existing target, that is, the magical machinery, as the construction object. While forging its own magic power, it relies on meditation to make the magic power run as stable and firm as a machine, and add the solidity and heaviness of metal.

Moreover, depending on the different prototypes of the magic machinery constructed, another enhancement will be brought about. That is, when driving the corresponding magic cavalry, one can rely on the inexplicable connection between the virtual line constructed by meditation and the real object to provide additional synchronization rate enhancement for the machine soul resonance activated by the meditator.

Simply put, it is a meditation method specifically used to improve the stability of magic power.

For the primitive magic power possessed by Alvin, this kind of meditation method is like putting armor on a dragon, making it stable as steel and indestructible under the control of the rider in normal times, and furious as fire and indestructible in wartime!

Of course, different meditation methods have mutually exclusive effects on the increase of magic properties, so it is not possible to use multiple meditation methods at the same time to infinitely stack properties.

Therefore, Alvin's choice is actually a relatively mainstream matching selection method. Simply put, it is to integrate two opposing or even contradictory characteristics to improve the comprehensiveness of his own magic power and make up for the shortcomings that existed at the first level.

The other method is more extreme, which is to rely on meditation to add a second characteristic to one's own magic power that can further strengthen the original characteristic, thereby allowing the outstanding characteristics of one's own magic power to be stimulated to a more extreme degree.

However, for Alvin, only the former of the two combinations actually made sense. Because Primal Mana possessed the ultimate frenzy trait, to put it in a more game-like way, there was no need to add points to an attribute that had already reached its maximum level.

In addition, in addition to adding properties such as solidity and stability to magic power, another feature of the meditation method "Steel God Forging" also gave Alvin a guess.

The memories from long ago but extremely clear gradually made him imagine a huge magical cavalry that looked like a heavy armored knight in his mind.

Although the details are still very vague, it can still be seen that what is about to take shape will be a giant creation that has never been seen before, as if the machine did not come into this world with the help of human hands, but was a divine machine that was cast and formed by the great god himself!

Yes, what Alvin constructed in his mind was the culmination of magical engineering that had not yet been born - the Giant God Soldier!

"It seems to be feasible..." The black-haired boy suddenly opened his eyes, and golden radiation spread rapidly in his pupils.

The [Ashes Armor - Armor of Light] that could generate armor out of thin air underwent an astonishing change under the interference of the young man's extremely strong will. A hint of metallic luster appeared in the originally pure white light, and the light that rose and swayed like a flame also had a bit more metallic calmness.

Then, using the iron light as an invisible paintbrush, an extremely large golden iron fist was outlined in the empty warehouse.

In an instant, as the magic power dissipated, the huge palm that looked like a giant's fist also dissipated.

"Huha..." A trace of fatigue appeared on Ivan's face, but then he couldn't help laughing out loud.

His conjecture turned out to be feasible. According to the theory conceived by those future magic doctors, the "Steel God Forging" was originally created to improve the synchronization rate between the Giant Driver and the Giant God Soldier.

Therefore, after this meditation method is completely constructed, it can even allow the user to summon some of the power of the Giant God out of thin air to fight!

As for the construction of other magical cavalry, it is just a universal modification made to promote this meditation method.

Now, if I combine the extra power brought by this meditation method with my core talent of [Reshaping the World]...

A trace of genuine joy belonging to the combat power party slowly emerged on Ivan's face, as well as an undisguised impatience like a child waiting for Santa Claus.

Perhaps because he had been meditating for too long, these two expressions appeared at the same time, blending into a crazy smile full of evil, like that of a great devil.

At this moment, the door was pushed open from the outside. Ka Yang, who had taken half a step in, saw the expression on the black-haired boy's face and instantly froze in place. Even the flying squirrel Peanut Butter standing above his head shuddered from head to toe, with every hair on his body standing up, like a frightened and swollen pufferfish.

"Well, did I come at the wrong time?" Ka Yang almost couldn't maintain the fake smile on his face.

“…” Ivan calmly raised his hands and rubbed his face, regaining his normal expression.

"It's okay, tell me, what happened?"

Sitting in the darkness, with only half of his face illuminated by the light from outside, the black-haired boy spoke calmly:

"..." Khayon was silent for a moment and decided to pretend that he saw nothing.

"The specific route for the Youth Magic Car Competition has been announced. The starting point is the small town of Darkserla, 600 kilometers away from Lutetia. The course will pass through different terrains, including mountains, beaches, forests, and tunnels. The final destination is the Linde National Circuit, the largest racetrack near Lutetia."

"Oh? That sounds like a challenge to the overall performance of the car." Ivan said with admiration:

"That's true, but it shouldn't be a problem for that weird... racing car you built." As he said this, Khayang's expression became complicated.